the Hill 2004 - Hoover Library - McDaniel College

lehrers lend Voice to
Commencement
Jim Lehrer .., executive c.ditor and anchor
of «The News+leur with Jim Lehrer"
on PBS, and his novelist wife Knre
Lehrer will speak to gnldu:1tes when
they receive honorary degrees from
the College May 22 at Commencement.
Jim Lehrer was born
in Wichita, Kan., in
1934. He is a graduate of
Victoria College in Texas
and the University of
Missouri. Aftertl;ree
years as an infantrv
officer in theA'bTi'ne
Corps, he launched his
journalism career, first as
;1 newspaperman and then as the host of
a loc,al experimental news program on
public television.
He carne to Washington with PBS in
1972, teaming with Robert MacNeil in
1973 to cover the Senate Warergatc hearings.
They began in 1975 what became
"The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," and, in
1983, The "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,"
the first 60-minute evening news program
on television. When MacNeil retired in
[995, the program was renamed "The
News+lour with Jim Lehrer."
has been honored Lehrer with numerous
awards for journalism, including ,1 presidential
National Humanities Medal in
1999. In the last four presidential elections,
h.e moderated nine of the nationally televised
candidate debates.
No Ct'rtllill Rest is Lehrer's 13th novel:
~is 14th, Flyillg Crows, will published'
be
in june 2004. He has also written IWO
memoirs and three plays.
Kate Lehrer is Tex'ls'Christian University
graduate and has written two best-selling
novels: Bfrt [mentions and Wben Tbey Took
Away rhe NIall ill tbe i'v{o01l. Her brest is
;OII!rsSioIlS ofn Bigalllist: A Novel. She is a
Ounding memhe- of the PENlFalllkner
Foundation Board and has served on other
boards, including Homeless in America. In
~~96, her book Ollt of Edell, received the
estern Aw,lrd for Outstanding Novel.
Arm THl
fACT
Number of ballet performances set to Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers I (see above)
Rank of Pride and Prejudice in a list of 10 books writer Anna Duindlen would save in a fire I
Novels written by broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer: 14
Years new Provost Thomas Falkner taught Classics at the College of Wooster in Ohio: 27
Members of the Class of 2005 who have changed their major at least once, as a percentage: 6I
Percentage of men and women 65 and older who still work, respectively' 18; 9.8
Percentage of the population with Alzheimer's disease at age 65: 10
Chances that a person 85 or older will have Alzheimer's: I in 2
Age of French painter Henri Matisse when he died: 85
of Miles between campus and the Baltimore Museum
which features a collection of 500 works by Matisse:
Art,
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